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it s the top of the hour, so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow, thank you for joining me on newsroom. we re going to hear from the white house. the white house covid task force is going to give a live update on the surge we re seeing in the united states right now. this comes hours after the approval of a potential game changing first in the pandemic, a pill to treat covid. the fda just today giving emergency authorization to pfizer s antiviral pixilvid, as the united states is seeing a 4% rise in hospitalizations from just a week ago, and now detecting omicron in 26 states 22 days after the first reported case in the country. a top researcher in south africa says the country is beyond its peak of omicron, saying south africa is seeing a serious decline in cases in the area where it was first detected. that is potentially good news for the word, the first pill to treat covid, how well does it work? it works quite well, and it s something you can take home. the doc ....
shot and killed daunte wright. i remember yelling taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him. plus as the january 6th committee prepares for more key depositions, one of the rioters gets one of the toughest sentences yet for flowing a fire extinguisher at police officers. and dark side of social media, unverified threats on tiktok, shutting down the country. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, december 18th, i m lindsey reiser. and we have a team of reporters and analystists following the latest from washington, d.c. tole kentucky. we begin, though, this weekend with americans across the country grappling with a really tough decision. keep their holiday plans to see loved ones or cancel as a massive twin variant surge of covid cases begins to hit. it s been 21 months and one week since the world health organization declared coronavirus a pandemic. this is a case rate over that time. over there on the far right there, you see how ....
matter of minutes when they got here. they set up a perimeter, did surveillance. we notified and activated our special response team. they came out and were able to take the fugitives into custody. well, they certainly appear to be distressed, as you can imagine. they indicated they were in a commercial building in a room. we were able to take them into custody without incident. however, they were very distressed walking out. any indication they were aided getting into the building. yes, they were aided. we re looking into that part of the investigation. authorities consider the couple to be fugitives after they failed to show up for their arraignment on charge of involuntary sman slaughter friday afternoon. investigators say their son shot and killed four at a high school earlier this week. the prosecutor said the egregious before the shooting led to the charges being filed. shortly after police said someone helped the crumbleys into the building. a colleague s ....
as the world watches and waits to see the impact of the omicron covid variant, here boosterjabs are to be offered to everyone over 18. the gap between the second vaccine dose and the booster will be cut from 6 months to three. and all twelve to fifteen year olds will now be offered a second vaccine dose. the government s deputy chief medical officer jonathan van tam says it s pretty likely that vaccine effectiveness will be reduced by the new variant but hopefully only to a small extent when it comes to preventing severe disease. as the number of cases increase in the uk and around the world, scientists believe it will take about three weeks to understand the effects of omicron. our health editor hugh pym has the latest. boosting the boosters, like those being given in derby today. that s now the official response to the new variant. experts have told ministers that, as well as all adults being offered boosterjabs, the gap between the second dose and the next should be ....
questions yet and it could take weeks before scientists know for sure. as officials are waiting for those answers, starting today, the u.s. has decided to ban entry for all non-u.s. citizens and permanent residents traveling from south africa and seven other neighboring countries. japan and israel going further, they re banning all foreign nationals from crossing their borders. this morning, at least 15 countries and territories have now confirmed cases, a small number at this point of the omicron variant. among them hong kong, canada, scotland and australia. as of right now, there are no known cases here in the u.s. dr. anthony fauci says knowing how these things spread, though, it s likely inevitable. some health officials say it s possible that evidence of this is already here. hours from now, president biden will speak about what we know about the new variant, how he plans to respond. cnn will bring you those comments live as they happen. our reporters and corre ....